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From reading what other players have been experiencing with the ending, it sounds like you have to side with one faction leader, and then a different faction leader becomes your "nemesis" and you have to kill them. If I want to side with the Huana and REMOVE pirates, is this possible to achieve? What do I need to do?

I found a good pistol for using with a melee weapon:

After figuring out how to do this, how hard would you say it would be to make a custom upgrade for companion equipment?

Keep in mind I'm playing on Classic with no level scaling. Fights were challenging early on but I'm level 18 now and almost at endgame and I haven't struggled in a while. I picked stats more for role playing than for efficiency. MIG: 15 CON: 10 DEX: 15 PER: 18 INT: 10 RES: 10 Having the maxed PER is nice for dialogue checks and detecting traps, but if I replay this character I will probably go for something like this: MIG: 13 CON: 10 DEX: 15 PER: 15 INT: 15 RES: 10 Having larger AoE and longer duration for my Afflictions would go further (pun intended) than the extra accuracy I think.

which subclass would you recommend for rogue, or no subclass?I didn't pick a subclass for Rogue because I'm pretty much just using it for Escape (and other abilities that let you GTFO when things get ugly) Dirty Fighting and Sneak Attack. If you want to backstab from stealth, pick Assassin. If you want to tank and take damage to deal damage, pick Streetfighter. If you want to tank and take less damage but also deal less damage, pick Trickster.

Beguiler/Rogue is amazing. Give yourself high INT for longer spell range and longer Affliction durations and high MIG for weapon damage. At higher levels you can inflict all enemies on the field with Flanked (Phantom Foes) and then pick them off one by one with Sneak Attack's bonus damage.

Wow, Steam getting rid of hentai has really broadened horizons!

Can we make this a general thread for requesting files we forgot to backup? I need Fassina's audio file! I wasn't paying attention and deleted it when I was removing all NPC VO. I wanted to keep the companions and sidekicks audio.

Really? The only food I bought was from those super cheap farms you find around the world. All the rest of the food you find when exploring. By the end of the game I was traveling with over 1000 food and water in consumption space with over 700fruit in storage. A fully manned gallon costed me under 50 gold per day, which is low. While the cost of ships might seem like much early on, once you collect higher loot, it’s a non issue. I upgraded everyweapon I wanted to highest level and was still left with over 400000 gold. And galleon was the first purchase I did. I don't like selling uniques, so maybe that's my problem.

So... is it better to pick One Handed Style and keep a melee weapon and a pistol in different item slots, or pick Two Weapon Style and dual wield them?

My biggest complaint about the ship system is that I spend WAY too much money feeding and paying my crew. I dunno how I'm supposed to afford to buy new ships like this! I'm already happily using the mod for Close to Board. Hopefully there will be one that removes crew expenses too... I was one of the people who felt like the stronghold was "tacked on" in the last game, but this was NOT what I wanted instead!

In addition to Ishiza there is a normal Hawk model used by enemy Gunhawks, and Beakhead (the white hawk pet) Surely the normal Hawk could be used as a Ranger pet?

I used an exploit to get enough positive approval with Aloth to unlock his romance, but then I found out that there is alternate romance dialogue if you have negative approval with him... kinda regretting it now, because the negative approval romance dialogue works a lot better for my Clever/Shady Watcher. Rekke has kind of stolen my heart too. The way he asks you what you think of him... and his reaction if you say he's "fun"

Rogue + Beguiler (whether multi-classed or party members) synergize VERY well.

I wanted my companions to "Defend Self" in combat so I could pick when they use their skills myself but they will still auto-attack. So I went into each companion's AI and changed "AI Behavior" to "No Behavior Selected" and changed "Auto Attack" to "Defend Self." For most of my companions (and my main character) this is working fine. But Aloth for some reason still cast spells. This has resulted in wasted spell uses or spell uses that have damaged my party. I've disabled his AI completely for now and this has stopped him from using spells autonomously, but I would like to be able to set his AI like the rest of my companions so he auto attacks. (It would be pretty funny if this is because I have anti-Leaden Key, pro-Autonomy Aloth so he does what he wants)

Another request from me - what's a pirate-themed game without a pirate-themed protagonist portrait?

It was pretty disappointing that Rekke's recruitment dialogue mentioned how strange his clothing was and that it was a style none of the crew had seen before... and then when you recruit him he's wearing normal Padded Armor. He really needs unique clothing or armor, maybe it could be called "Missionary's Mantle" or something, that is Yezuha style.

In my game, I received a letter from Queen Onekaza asking to talk to me before I completed "The Last Sanctuary" which is a Huana faction quest you receive from her brother, Prince Aruihi. You are clearly not supposed to be able to talk to Queen Onekaza before receiving her letter of summons, so I assume it has something to do with your reputation with the Huana faction? When I spoke to Queen Onekaza and she gave me the "Shadow under Neketaka" quest, she mentioned Motare o Kozi (the island from "The Last Sanctuary" as if I had already completed that quest, which leads me to believe you should NOT be able to gain an audience with her until you have completed it. I then went and completed "The Last Sanctuary" and then spoke to Prince Aruihi, and he mentioned that I take orders from his sister now and I had to dig through the dialogue trees to turn in "The Last Sanctuary." The progression here seems to be bugged.

I don't get an option to "Open with" when I right-click a gamebundle file, is there something I need to do first? EDIT: Nevermind, when I chose "Open" I was able to pick a program to open it with. Thanks for the instructions!

What if I want to change a multiclass name, not switch two of them?

It's strange because there is a sitting animation but no interactable chairs.

I went a little upgrade crazy, and then I burned through all my money while sailing around uncovering the map (crew wages, food, etc) I literally have 0 gold! What do? Can I declare bankruptcy to the Vailian bank?

What about creating a custom subclass? It's a shame Eder and Aloth don't have unique subclasses for their original class based on their ending state from the first game. Just throwing ideas around here, but what if Night Market Eder has a 10% chance to automatically cast Symbol of Eothas on a crit, and Light of Eothas when being crit? Or Leaden Key Grandmaster Aloth being able to cast Ring Leader once per encounter?

Is it possible to replace a class name in all the files with a different one?

Just a reminder that if you go into Program Files > Steam > steamapps > common > Pillars of Eternity II > Pillars of Eternity II_data > StreamingAssets > Audio you can delete any/all WEM files in there without harming the game. The specified audio just won't play. Unfortunately, cutscenes are separate files, so you have to listen to those (or skip them)